Jon Jacobson | CEO/CTOOmnisient (Pty) Ltd

Jon is a software engineer and entrepreneur with over 25 years experience in designing and automating software platforms. His core area of focus is customer data platform design - and using those platforms to enable effective marketing strategies that help businesses to grow. At Omnisient, his role is to ensure that our technology is fit for purpose and meets customer needs.

Omnisient is a Cape Town-based Privacy-by-Design startup that specializes in secure data sharing. Founded on the belief that data privacy is central to creating a sustainable data economy, Omnisient follows the core principle of privacy by design in line with GDPR standards and the PoPI Act in South Africa. ensuring all solutions are designed with compliance and privacy in mind.

In his previous role as founder and CEO of Global Vision, he led the company into 35 global markets. Jon believes that success is a team sport

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Virtual Agenda Day 1 @ 09:00

PANEL: The next step in banking efficiency: Moving to robotic process automation (RPA)

Jon Jacobson, CEO/CTO,Omnisient (Pty) Ltd

Jon is a software engineer and entrepreneur with over 25 years experience in designing and automating software platforms. His core area of focus is customer data platform design - and using those platforms to enable effective marketing strategies that help businesses to grow. At Omnisient, his role ...

Ruan Wannenburg, Chief Information Officer,Rand Merchant Bank

As Head of Technology, Ruan Wannenburg leads an award-winning team for the RMB International division. He is key in driving innovative solutions for the African subsidiaries, from inception through to operationalisation. His extensive knowledge of the banking industry coupled with the years of...

Corné Janse van Rensburg has over 20 years’ experience in the financial services sector. His career spans training, consulting, business analytics and business enablement both internationally and locally. He holds an MBA from GIBS and has also completed a course through MIT on the implications of...

Marius Botha, Managing Director,Girls in Tech

Marius Botha is a technologist and digital solution consultant. He heads up the Intelligent Automation strategy for TFG.Over the last two decades he was involved in the fields of ECM, Retail Systems, FinTech, Programme Management, Relationship Management and Intelligent Automation.He is also the...

A Pan African Senior Corporate Professional and International Conference Speaker, with a Solid career in Strategy, Performance Management, Accounting, and Business Development, from Banking (Consumer, Corporate, Commercial), and Oil and Gas perspectives. Leading by example, self- motivated and...

Virtual Agenda Day 1 @ 10:30

PANEL Knowledge is power: turning data innovation into profit

Jon Jacobson, CEO/CTO,Omnisient (Pty) Ltd

Jon is a software engineer and entrepreneur with over 25 years experience in designing and automating software platforms. His core area of focus is customer data platform design - and using those platforms to enable effective marketing strategies that help businesses to grow. At Omnisient, his role ...

Dr. Konstantinos Tsanis, Chief Transformation Officer,ALAT/WEMA Bank

Dr. Tsanis is leading the Innovation and Data arm of WEMA Bank Plc, the oldest indigenous bank of Nigeria, that has among others launched the first digital bank of West Africa, Alat. Simultaneously, he holds Academic roles on Finance and Strategy at the University of Edinburgh Business...

Loic Potjes, Managing Director,Disruptive Leap

Loic has 15 years’ experience at the helm of corporations, and as a CEO, in Africa and Europe has managed turnarounds, market entries, mergers and acquisitions, driven exponential scaling, differentiated and disruptive changes successfully.An alumni of Singularity University, London Business...

Camilo Amarcy, Head Of Data, Mi And Analytics,Absa Mozambique

Camilo is the Head of Data & Analytics for Barclays Bank Mozambique. He started his professional life as Electronic Engineer, thriving his early stages on a telecom company as a Data Security Engineer.After 7 year performing different activities such as: IT Governance, Enterprise Architecture...

Kenneth Kayser, Head - Mobile, Digital And E-Commerce,Nedbank Ltd

Kenneth is a multi award winning innovator and has experience building new businesses & digital products across multiple industries. He co-founded Barclays Rise Africa (Barclays Africa Open Innovation business unit) that connects and co-create solutions with ...

PANEL From disruptive to collaborative: driving growth through regulation

Jon Jacobson, CEO/CTO,Omnisient (Pty) Ltd

Jon is a software engineer and entrepreneur with over 25 years experience in designing and automating software platforms. His core area of focus is customer data platform design - and using those platforms to enable effective marketing strategies that help businesses to grow. At Omnisient, his role ...

Jeanine has extensive business knowledge and has worked across Africa. With a career starting as a Math, Science and Technology high school teacher for mentally challenged children, through gold, platinum and coal mining then making her way through consulting and ending up in the financial...

Avsharn Bachoo, Group Chief Information Officer,Comair

Avsharn is a technology strategist that specialises in digital transformation, software engineering, data analytics, machine learning, cloud computing, DevOps, and enterprise architecture. He is an expert in translating business requirements into workable solutions, using best practice...

Virtual Agenda Day 1 @ 15:00

PANEL The future of connected banking – what will the next connected banking system look like?

Jon Jacobson / PANEL The future of connected banking – what will the next connected banking system look like?

Jon Jacobson, CEO/CTO,Omnisient (Pty) Ltd

Jon is a software engineer and entrepreneur with over 25 years experience in designing and automating software platforms. His core area of focus is customer data platform design - and using those platforms to enable effective marketing strategies that help businesses to grow. At Omnisient, his role ...

Stelios Papadakis / PANEL The future of connected banking – what will the next connected banking system look like?

Stelios Papadakis, Chief Operating Officer,BancABC Mozambique

Stelios Papadakis is Group Head of Business Technologies (CIO) of African Banking Corporation Holdings (ABCH), overseeing Technology Operations across six subsidiaries in Africa, and Chief Operating Officer (COO) for BancABC Mozambique. Before that, he has held several senior positions across the...

Maciej Kaliszka / PANEL The future of connected banking – what will the next connected banking system look like?

In an ever-changing and growing data-dependent world, we require simplicity from the hyper-complexity. I have a passion to create solutions by simplifying problems or challenges that focus on value. With years of experience in Marketing (Brand Management), Strategy (Management Consulting) and Data...

Jon Jacobson, CEO/CTO,Omnisient (Pty) Ltd

Jon is a software engineer and entrepreneur with over 25 years experience in designing and automating software platforms. His core area of focus is customer data platform design - and using those platforms to enable effective marketing strategies that help businesses to grow. At Omnisient, his role ...

Nkazi Sokhulu, Co-Founder,Yalu

Nkazi Sokhulu is the Co-founder & CEO of Yalu; a life insurance company that’s focused on reshaping the way South Africans engage with the biggest, but least understood form of insurance: credit life. Yalu brings a number of first time innovations to the credit life market and is seeing a great ...